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cream(2) (iou)



cream noun2 & adjective. [kri:m] ME.
[Old French creme, craime, cresme (mod. creme fem.) repr. blending of late Latin cramum, crama (perh. of Gaulish origin) with ecclesiastical Latin chrisma CHRISM noun.]
A. noun.
The part of milk with high fat content, which collects at the top of the milk and which by churning is made into butter. ME.
clotted cream, (dial.) clouted cream, Cornish cream, dairy cream, Devonshire cream, double cream, full cream, half cream, ice-cream, single cream, sour cream, whipping cream, etc.
A fancy dish or pudding of which cream is an ingredient, or which has the appearance and consistency of cream. LME.
b. More fully cream sherry. A full-bodied sweet sherry. L19.
c. A sweet or biscuit with a creamy filling. M20.
The most excellent element or part; the most outstanding group of people within a larger group; the quintessence. L16.
R. Davies The successful Parisian entertainer, drawing the cream of society to his little theatre. S. Brill These auto and steel pensions are the cream of the crop.
The part of a liquid that gathers at the top; a head of scum, froth, etc. (Implied earlier in CREAM verb 1a.) M17.
b. The liquid rich in droplets or particles of the dispersed phase that forms a separate (esp. upper) layer in an emulsion or suspension when it is allowed to stand or is centrifuged. E20.
A creamlike preparation used cosmetically or medicinally. E18.
Goldsmith In vain she tries her paste and creams To smooth her face or hide its seams.
ellipt. Cream colour; a cream-coloured horse, rabbit, etc. L18.
Phrases: burnt cream = creme br?lee s.v. CReME 1. cold cream: see COLD adjective. cream of chicken (soup), cream of tomato (soup), etc., a chicken etc. soup made with cream or milk. cream of tartar purified and crystallized potassium bitartrate, used in medicine etc.; cream of tartar fruit (Austral.), the fruit of the baobab; cream of tartar tree (Austral.), the baobab. night cream: see NIGHT noun. peaches and cream: see PEACH noun1. SWISS cream. vanishing cream: see VANISH verb. violet cream: see VIOLET noun.
Comb.: cream bun, cream cake: filled with cream; cream cheese a soft rich kind of cheese made of unskimmed milk and cream; a cheese of this kind; cream colour the colour of the cream of milk, a yellowish white; cream-coloured adjective of cream colour, yellowish white; cream cracker a crisp unsweetened biscuit; cream-cups a Californian and Mexican plant of the poppy family, Platystemon californicus, with yellow or cream-coloured flowers; cream horn a pastry shaped like a horn and filled with cream and jam; cream ice (an) ice-cream; cream nut a Brazil nut; cream puff (a) a puff pastry filled with cream; (b) an unimportant person or thing; (c) an effeminate person; a male homosexual; cream sauce: made with cream or milk; cream sherry: see sense 2b above; cream soda a carbonated drink of vanilla-flavoured soda water; cream soup: made with cream or milk; cream tea an afternoon tea which includes bread or scones with jam and (clotted) cream; creamware earthenware of a rich cream colour.
b. adjective. Cream-coloured; yellowish-white. M19.
creamlike adjective resembling (that of) cream M19.